Name: Noam Chomsky - Power Systems (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis

Subtitled : Conversations With David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings & The Challenges To US Empire.

This book explores immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the 'class war' fought by US business interests against working people and the poor, the breakdown of mainstream political institutions and the rise of the far right . . .

. . . "Historical amnesia is a dangerous phenomenon not only because it undermines moral and intellectual integrity but also because it lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead."

. . . "Any good capitalist democracy needs to keep the rabble in line. To make sure that they are atoms of consumption, obedient tools of production, isolated from one another, lacking any concept of a decent human life. They are to be spectators in a political system run by elites, blaming each other and themselves for what’s wrong."

The latest volume from a long-established, trusted partnership, this collection shows once again that no interlocutor engages with Chomsky more effectively than David Barsamian. These interviews will inspire a new generation of readers, as well as longtime Chomsky fans eager for his latest thinking on the many crises we now confront, both at home and abroad. They confirm that Chomsky is an unparalleled resource for anyone seeking to understand our world today.

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Format : Smaller 2nd Hand Paperback
Condition : Very Good (Almost As New)
Category : Non-Fiction - Politics & Government
Published : 2012 (This Edition 2014 - Penguin)
ISBN : 9780241965245
SKU : B003062
PPC : LL250gm
RRP : £6.00
Quantity Available : 1 only.

External Reviews

"The No. 1 Public Intellectual" - Prospect Magazine.

'One of the finest minds of the twentieth & the twenty first centuries' - New Yorker.

'Noam Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet today' - New York Times Book Review.

'Will there ever again be a public intellectual who commands the attention of so many across the planet?' - New Statesman.

'The west's most prominent critic of US imperialism . . . the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar' - The Guardian.

The Author

Noam Chomsky, in full Avram Noam Chomsky, (born December 7, 1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.), American theoretical linguist whose work from the 1950s revolutionized the field of linguistics by treating language as a uniquely human, biologically based cognitive capacity. Through his contributions to linguistics and related fields, including cognitive psychology and the philosophies of mind and language, Chomsky helped to initiate and sustain what came to be known as the “cognitive revolution.” Chomsky also gained a worldwide following as a political dissident for his analyses of the pernicious influence of economic elites on U.S. domestic politics, foreign policy, and intellectual culture.

David Barsamian is the award-winning founder and director of Alternative Radio. He has authored several books of interviews with leading political thinkers. (www.alternativeradio.org)

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